By Itay Hod
On a typical day, Phillip Sharrette, a laundry worker, handles hundreds of pounds of clothes.
“The longest and most tedious part is folding the actual articles of clothing,” he said.
But on this particular morning, he was able to take a load off with a helping hand straight out of a sci-fi movie. Working alongside him was “Isaac,” a robot equipped with cameras and sensors that could sort, fold, and stack piles of clothes with surprising precision.
“It still blows my mind that every day I wake up and go to work with a robot,” Sharrette said.
Sharrette works for Tumble, a San Francisco-based laundry service, and he said Isaac was a bit slow, about two minutes per item, but, according to Sharrette, it is still learning. As Sharrette and Isaac worked, a steady stream of people peered through the window, many of them taking pictures….
